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Gear Grinding 9: I Need a Wine!

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dxmnkd316 said:
Right, because your employees share their true opinions with you. Another universal law of nature: They don't. People generally don't bite the hand that feeds them. Plus you've never given them the opportunity for unlimited sick time. You haven't offered them a true choice. You have dictated policy between two mediocre or bad choices. I've worked in four systems: No sick time, allotted sick time + allotted vacation, PTO, and effectively unlimited sick time + allotted vacation. My previous company converted from sick+vacation to PTO. It sucked. I didn't tell them I hated that idea because it was a small company and I had a job. I'm sure people told them, including me, that they liked the increased flexibility because in theory, it is better. But when it comes down to deciding whether I should come in sick and potentially infect other people, I decided that was the company's cost, not mine. Do I eat my vacation or go in sick? I will go in sick 100% of the time.

PTO might be favored by both parties in the right circumstances: Young, healthy workforce; fewer infants at home; low-paying jobs where vacations are an unobtainable luxury. My coworkers love the unlimited sick time here because they don't have to decide whether they come in sick or have to figure out how to care for a sick child and use vacation time instead. There is no deciding.

My current employer offers effectively unlimited sick time. You would think an employer as large as mine couldn't afford all these people gaming the system. You would think that it would scale accordingly and would still cost them the same percentage of employee-days if the system is gamed. The giant corporation understands that PTO is ultimately a bad deal for the employer. It encourages lower productivity employees to come in, potentially prolonging their illness because they aren't focused on their health while also possibly infecting other employees, further decreasing productivity. Why would a corporation offer such a giant honeypot if it's easily and often abused? Because it saves the company money and improves overall health and productivity. Plus, with unlimited sick time, there is no incentive to use it or lose it. It's not viewed as accrued benefits. It's just a benefit.

I have yet to ever come across a person who called in sick and faked it. Does it happen? I guarantee it does, just not at the rate you think. Then again, the average conservative also thinks drug testing welfare recipients is a good policy. So I guess that makes sense.

Edit: On the other hand, giant corporations are supremely efficient at ****ing their employees over the table without them knowing, so maybe I'm just getting screwed and I have no idea. Also likely.
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Cool story.

Actually, I haven't even asked my employees whether they like the new system or not, so I don't know if they'd lie to me. All I know is that the reason we made the switch is that I thought the whole idea of someone calling in sick, then going through the embarrassment of being seen that day in the grocery store, was a charade, so we asked them before we made the change whether they would prefer a PTO method, or the old way, and to a person they said PTO. And, they've never come to me and asked to go back to the old way.
 
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SJHovey said:
Cool story.

Actually, I haven't even asked my employees whether they like the new system or not, so I don't know if they'd lie to me. All I know is that the reason we made the switch is that I thought the whole idea of someone calling in sick, then going through the embarrassment of being seen that day in the grocery store, was a charade, so we asked them before we made the change whether they would prefer a PTO method, or the old way, and to a person they said PTO. And, they've never come to me and asked to go back to the old way.
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Cool story.

The data writ large speaks otherwise.
 
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Isnt it great when a bunch of weirdos highjack a thread to have a completely uninteresting conversation about how much it sucks however they get paid to not be at work? :p
 
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Handyman said:
Isnt it great when a bunch of weirdos highjack a thread to have a completely uninteresting conversation about how much it sucks however they get paid to not be at work? :p
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So long as everybody is doing it on sick time, though, is fine. :D
 
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Every time a coworker of mine asks if I’ve seen a movie, and I tell him I haven’t, he lists the entire cast. Not in a helpful way, like “Oh, it’s about a girls professional baseball league during WWII. Tom Hanks is a manager, Geena Davis is the star player, yada yada yada.” No, it’s just a literal list, as in “it’s got Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell, ...”

It’s like I’m supposed to throw together everyone’s acting style and imagine what the plot and dialogue could be.
 
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I actually saw the following first post of a new topic at another MDSTMB. I can't even:

The Jewish people have suffered, been persecuted, and yet somehow always seem to recover and thrive in business.

Do they hold special privilege?.....discuss.

Just look at some of the holocaust survivors as examples
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Not special privilege; special perspective.

My uncle is friends with a man who fell overboard on a transatlantic sailing trip. His partner was down below resting but about 30 minutes later had a premonition that something wasn’t right and went aboveboard to check. He immediately reversed course and against all odds found the man floating in the middle of the Atlantic with no life jacket. The man who was rescued (my uncle’s friend), with a new perspective on risk, opportunity, and the shortness of life, quit his job, founded a very successful business and is now easily worth more than $100M.
 
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Ok, but I don't think anyone surviving the Holocaust would consider it a privileged path to post-war achieved successes.
 
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Spending 30 minutes on the elliptical yesterday and feeling wiped out. I knew I'd lose fitness after three months off; I didn't think I'd lose it that much.
 
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Also, I'm writing my memoir, and I wrote about my one and only visit to a strip club in July 2005. But what I wrote seems clunky, disjointed, and self-righteous, which is not my style at all.
 
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leswp1 said:
dictate. I use my phone and dictate a doc then edit after.
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This is what I wrote. You be the judge. Right now, I'm still writing the first draft.

Late July 2005, still without a driver’s license, I took the risk of driving to Lake City to join my friend Drew for his birthday weekend. I made it up there just fine, even though I accidentally drove past his house more than once. You see children, back in 2005, we didn’t have GPS on our phones, and we didn’t even have Google Maps. We had a website called Mapquest, and it wasn’t accurate. Eventually, I made it to his house, and there was much rejoicing. I got some water and a light snack upon arrival, and we hung out all weekend. But that night, we went to a strip, I mean “Gentleman’s” club, and I had no idea how to handle myself. I spent a lot of money on lap dances, handing money to the girls, etc. I was basically out of money by the time we left the club, and I was embarrassed. I told my Mom, and she forgave me. And with my relationship with Christ at the time, I thought God was going to flat out kill me. A week or so prior, I gave my testimony at church, and I thought I was a fraud. But I was forgiven, not only by God, but by other people. In the aftermath of this, I also learned that strip clubs objectify women. I thought of the women in my life, realized attending strip clubs meant I thought they were less than human, and I knew I could never go to one again. I talked to a few others, and realized with their “look, don’t touch” motif, it’s a colossal waste of money.
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MissThundercat said:
But with the piece I posted, does it sound self-righteous? That's all I want to know.
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The "good" strip clubs...the women do it because it's a boatload of cash, and it's their choice to perform that job. When the NoDak oil boom was at the top of its game, Las Vegas strippers would travel up to the clubs in NoDak, because it was better money (yes, you read that right).

The shady ones, or not good ones, well, it's income, one supposes (I'll make no other assumptions, but we have all heard the stereotypes).

That being said, I've been in 2 clubs. The Sartell one was because I was sure that if I didn't go, I'd miss out on a story. The other one was Deja Vu in Mpls, and my college roommate and I took his niece and her friend. We were the "fake boyfriends" (there was a 3 year difference in age, btw) in case some jack bags tried hitting on them or something.

Never spent a dollar in either place. My cover charges were covered by friends both times.
 
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